Chief Executive Justin King said in a conference call that the company could see strong Christmas shopping ahead of an expected rise in U.K.'s value-added tax.
Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund has owned K-Tron stock since the company went public in 1980.
They see the volatility in the stock market, and when they get their 401(k) statements, they see that that value has gone down.
If a law does get passed, though, one U.K. analyst says BP may find better value for its Gulf of Mexico assets by finding a buyer for them.
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Note that stable value funds are mostly available only in 401(k)s.
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In most 401(k) plans, to move money from a stable-value account into a money-market fund or short-term bond fund, plan participants have to be invested in a riskier option for at least 90 days.
Consequently when these men were processed by the Administrative Review Board that is charged with an annual analysis of whether an individual detainee poses a threat to America or possesses intelligence value, they were released back to U.K. custody because of lack of documented proof of their combatant status.
No, I am not saying everything is hunky dory at home as the 401(K) plans still have big dents in them and the house value remains a problem.
The longer the policy is in force, the greater the proportion of the premium that goes into a cash value account that works like an IRA or 401(k) plan.
But half of 401(k) participants have another, intriguing choice for a safe haven: stable value funds, which returned 2.36% on average over the past year.
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In Diebold's case, like many others, his 401(k) plan appears to be contractually on the hook for any decline in the value of collateral received in exchange for the securities it lent out.
That has left U.K. banks among the most lowly valued in Europe, trading at fractions of book value.
It will be either a government based on dilution and compromise or a weak day-to-day, deal-and-favor arrangement that will see the value of the pound fall on the foreign exchanges and the premium of U.K. gilts over German bunds widen.
By another gauge, though, U.K. REITs aren't as pricey as you'd think: the stock price versus net asset value, which is the worth of a property portfolio after debt is taken out.
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